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Vice President of Business and Culture at the Media Research Center, Dan Gainor, joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow to discuss a number of topics from news including the best and worst cases of media bias this week, as well as the Vanity Fair hyping of Chelsea Clinton.

A battle is brewing in the heart of New York City’s financial district and it’s not about money. It’s a conflict between the artist who created the iconic three and a half ton bronze bull as a symbol of American strength and perseverance, and a four-foot high bronze girl planted in his path by an investment company.

In a press conference on Wednesday, the Italian-born artist behind Wall Street’s famous “Charging Bull” statue, Arturo di Modica, argued that the recently installed “Fearless Girl” statue was tantamount to a violation of copyright. Mr Di Modica’s attorney, Norman Siegel,

Wall Street pension management companies are protesting a decision by agency officials to preserve a 2016 regulation which supporters say will protect retirees’ savings from self-serving sales managers.

John Carney, Breitbart News finance and economics editor, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about the Dow’s hitting 21,000 for the first time after President Trump’s address to Congress.

“I screwed up the economy, your jobs and your mortgages so – hey – I’m just the guy you can trust to tell you what to do about climate change!”

Despite investor confidence and soaring stock prices, Amazon’s fourth-quarter earnings in 2016 fell below expectations.

Snapchat’s social media parent, Snap, Inc., seemed headed for a $5 billion IPO until a former employee alleged in a conveniently timed lawsuit that the company misrepresented its financial position and pressured him for proprietary secrets about his former employer, Facebook.

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s incoming administration is girding for battle with corporatists, globalists, and special business interests over his core policy objective of bringing U.S. manufacturing jobs that have been shipped overseas back to the United States, several senior advisers to Trump tell Breitbart News.

During an interview on Monday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) argued that a party can’t take money from Wall Street, “and then tell working families that you’re on their side. People see through that. So, I think the Democratic

CNN Money made no bones about crediting the incredible post-election surge in the stock market to a “Trump rally,” as Wall Street hit the rare “superfecta”: all four major indexes closing at record highs on the same day.

Stephen K. Bannon (or, for those who want to maximize their SEO, Steve Bannon) — president-elect Donald Trump’s pick for White House chief strategist — made his pet issues known long before joining Trump’s insurgent presidential campaign. Now, Americans can reflect on what issues Bannon may take on within a Trump White House — and it does not look good for the culture of corruption in Washington, DC.

“U.S. stocks opened higher on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial average hitting a record high, as Donald Trump’s unexpected victory in the U.S. presidential election continued to lift the market,” Reuters reported on Monday morning. The Dow opened at 18,914.78.

About 40 people have occupied Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Capitol Hill office to protest his ties to Wall Street as he prepares to lead Senate Democrats in the 115th meeting of Congress, the Associated Press reported.

Peter Morici, University of Maryland business professor and former director of economics for the U.S. International Trade Commission, appeared on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss his weekend column for the New York Post, “Trump Can Get Us the China Deal We Deserve.”

From CNBC:

U.S. equities closed mostly higher on Friday, with the three major indexes posting their best weekly gains of the year on the back of a surprise Republican sweep.

Wall Street traders booed Hillary Clinton on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during her concession speech to President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday.

It should not be surprising that anticipation of Donald Trump’s presidential victory caused a 900-point plunge, over several days, in the Dow Jones stock average. Wall Street sent stocks down by over 20 percent after Ronald Reagan won the presidency.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had no problem defending Hillary Clinton publicly over her decision not to release transcripts of her paid speeches to financial companies, but privately, he found those speeches “hard to defend,” according to an email released by WikiLeaks Thursday.

(Reuters) — Artificial intelligence programs have beaten chess masters and TV quiz show champions. Next up: stock market cheats.

David Sirota writes in the International Business Times that a Wall Street executive who could be Hillary Clinton’s choice for Treasury Secretary has a plan to give the financial industry control over billions in taxpayer funds for retirement savings. This plan, Sirota notes, would “enrich” the Wall Street hedge fund and private equity industries “that have donated millions to support Clinton’s presidential bid.”

Clinton campaign workers understood that such a speech would be a nightmare for her campaign, but Hillary was insistent that Bill be allowed to continue.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senator Chris Coons (D-DE), who is supporting Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, argued that it’s “in everyone’s best interest” for Clinton to release the transcripts of her Wall Street

WASHINGTON (AP) — Behind closed doors, Hillary Clinton adopted a rather more accommodating tone with Wall Street than she has on the campaign trail.

Associated Press reporter Lisa Lerer calls Hillary Clinton’s position of “open trade and open borders” politically “moderate” in a hot take column about Wikileaks’ first round of released emails from John Podesta.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday that leaked excerpts of Hillary Clinton’s speeches to Wall Street bankers might have been doctored, and that he “had no way of knowing” whether she actually said what the documents said.

At a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Hillary insisted she was going to “create more fairness” in the nation but spent a lot of time reiterating her attacks on Donald Trump’s taxes, again claiming he “rooted for the housing collapse.”

U.S. stocks crashed 2.5 percent on Friday, September 9 as Wall Street woke up to the risk of “Two Bumps and a Stumble” — i.e. when it takes two interest rate hikes to generate a market reaction.

During an interview broadcast on Friday’s edition of CNN’s “The Lead,” Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) stated that “Wall Street has been buying his way into Washington for decades now, and they are a big part of, not only how the

Something big is happening in American politics—bigger than this election. And so even if we can’t precisely predict the winner this November, we can know the general contours of American politics in the decades to come: populists on one side, elitists on the other.

Pioneering political pollster Pat Caddell told Breitbart News that the Breitbart/Gravis poll on immigration confirms that Americans have real concerns about immigration, even Democrats, going into the last 100 days of the presidential election.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Princeton Professor Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary Dr. Cornel West stated that Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, doesn’t “have a whole lot of integrity.”

In endorsing Hillary Clinton as the Democrat’s choice for President, Sen. Bernie Sanders decried “greed, recklessness, and illegal behavior” and declared that we couldn’t let “billionaires buy elections.”

Donald Trump is using his Art of the Deal to attack Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street fundraising spigot by promising to reinstate the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act that her husband, President Bill Clinton, repealed in the waning days of his Administration.

Major banking and Wall Street entities will not be attending the Republican National Convention (RNC), according to a report just one day after Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton — who gave high-priced speeches to Goldman Sachs and will not release the content of those addresses.

POMONA — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) slammed the Democratic Party establishment on Thursday evening, telling an audience of thousands in this largely Hispanic town that party leaders wanted voters to “think small.”